OEM News
For the past 20 years, Passport Yachts, owned by Thom Wagner, has built and refined the Bob Perry designed Passport series of performance cruising sailboats.

At the 2004 Annapolis Sailboat Show, Thom took delivery of a Passport 47 for his own use and to display at the show. Over the years, Thom has chosen Forespar masts, booms and other sail handling equipment for all the yachts. Thom chose the long proven Forespar Furlaway™ for his mast mainsail furling system, which incorporates partial vertical battens to enhance sail area and leach design.

Leisure Furl™ News
Bill Hanna, Forespar COO, recently vacationed in Asia where he also met with our Forespar Japanese agent, Tosh Toya of Hood Sailmakers. Tosh is a long time customer and has found a growing market for the Forespar carbon spinnaker poles. Tosh is also our Leisure Furl Coastal distributor for Japan and will be showing Forespar products at the Tokyo boat show this winter.

Rep News
We welcome Sandy Williamson of Annapolis, MD who has recently been hired by East Coast Marketing for the mid-Atlantic area. Sandy will represent Forespar on the East Coast from New Jersey to the Carolinas. Sandy has been in the marine market since 1987 and recently served as the wholesale salesperson for Port Supply in this same area. Sandy is an avid sailor and races many off shore designs on the East Coast including a Farr ILC 46 “Ramrod,” owned by Burt Jabin. Sandy can be reached at 410.280.2480.

Flash From The Past
Forespar Composites was hired to manufacture 5 sets of wing spars as well as main body tubes for an effort headed by Boeing UCLA and NASA. Forespar worked with some very talented engineers and gained a lot of engineering knowledge while working on the project. You can read further at: http://talus.seas.ucla.edu/spff/aboutspff.html

At the recent IBEX show in Ft. Lauderdale, Forespar exhibited the newest addition to the Nova Lift™ line, the winch lift. This lift is specifically designed to work on a powerboat where there is no winch to use in order to lift heavy objects such as motors, supplies, pets and even people. This new lift has the same 220lbs capacity and has the same clean features which include a self feeding internal line control with exit sheave at the base of the assembly. The winch and bracket can be purchased separately (part # 153370 – retail $111.00) and added to an existing Nova Lift or the entire lift (part # 153312 – retail $600.00) Is now available.

Bruce Kaiser of Lightening Master™ gave a seminar in the IBEX show on the IONS and OUTS of static dissipaters, which have been sold for years to lower the exposure of tall objects, such as power lines, television towers and Sailboat Masts to lightening strikes by controlling the conditions which trigger direct strikes.

Forespar is the world-wide Marine distributor of the Lightening Master (part # 151100 - retail $98.45, see page 24 of the 2004 Forespar catalog) or request the Lightening Master brochure from customer service for more information.

The Portsmouth 48, designed and marketed by Ted Hood (right), was exhibited at the Annapolis boat show with both a Forespar mast and Forespar Leisure Furl boom reefing system.

Factory contact numbers:
Ph: 949 858-8820 or 800-266-8820
Fax: 949-858-0505

Regular orders (catalog products):
8:00am - 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time: Linda Stanley
sales@forespar.com (Order desk)
lindas@forespar.com

Carbon fiber technical questions only:
Dennis Gallegos, dennisg@forespar.com
(For basic pole orders, contact the order desk)

Custom Spars & Leisure Furl sales:
Alan Massey, alanm@forespar.com
Ph: 909-880-1678, cell 909-534-5886
Peter Hobman at Forespar; peterh@forespar.com
(Leisure Furl Engineering)

Technical Support & Services:
Randy Risvold, randyr@forespar.com
Art Bandy, artb@forespar.com

Marketing, sales and promotions:
Bill Mosher, billm@forespar.com
Ph: 414-220-9462
Cell: 414-688-9979